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Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living
by Doug Fine  
Publisher Comments Advance praise for Farewell, My Subaru Fine is Bryson Funny. ----Santa Cruz Sentinel Fine is an amiable and self-deprecating storyteller in the mold of Douglas Adams. If you're a fan of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-style humor -- and also looking to...
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The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide
by John Seymour
Powells.com Staff Pick This book reminds me of those Laura Ingalls books I read as a kid. Laura's family lived by the seasons. In the summer they harvested hay, canned preserves and tended to livestock. In the fall, they butchered pigs and stored food in the attic for...
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The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith H
by Eliot Wigginton Publisher Comments Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region....
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The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
by Kelly Coyne Publisher Comments The Urban Homesteadis the essential handbook for a fast-growing new movement: urbanites are becoming gardeners and farmers. Rejecting both end-times hand wringing and dewy-eyed faith that technology will save us from ourselves, urban homesteaders choose...
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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape
by Brad Lancaster Publisher Comments This is Volume One of the three-volume set, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands. Volume One helps bring your site to life, reduce your cost of living, endow you with skills of self-reliance, and create living air conditioners of vegetation growing beauty...
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Wake Up and Smell the Planet: The Non-Pompous Non Preachy Grist Guide to Greening Your Day
by Grist Magazine Publisher Comments Sustainability is the new "bling," and Grist knows how to wear it. Not a guide about guilt, but about making little choices throughout the day that improve the planet. Grist is the hottest online magazine covering sustainability and popular culture....
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Good Life (89 Edition)
by Scott Nearing Publisher Comments This one volume edition of Living the Good Life and Continuing the Good Life brings these classics on rural homesteading together. This couple abandoned the city for a rural life with minimal cash and the knowledge of self reliance and good health....
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Sustainability Revolution (05 Edition)
by Andres R Edwards Publisher Comments Sustainability has become a buzzword in the last decade, but its full meaning is complex, emerging from a range of different sectors. In practice, it has become the springboard for millions of individuals throughout the world who are forging the fastest...
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The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices
by Michael Brower Publisher Comments From one of the most prestigious nonprofit organizations devoted to environmental issues comes a clear, practical, and rational overview of the relationship between consumers and the environment. Paper or plastic? Bus or car? Old house or new? Cloth...
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Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life
by Ed Begley Jr. Publisher Comments From the pioneer of eco-conscious living... A committed environmentalist for more than thirty years, Ed Begley, Jr., has always tried to "live simply so others may simply live." Now, as more and more of us are looking for ways to reduce our impact on...
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The Better World Shopping Guide: How Every Dollar Can Make a Difference
by Ellis Jones Publisher Comments This is the only comprehensive guide for socially and environmentally responsible consumers available. It contains over fifteen years of comprehensive research distilled into a pocket-sized, shopping-friendly format, ranking every product on the shelf...
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The Carbon-Free Home: Thirty-Six Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit
by Stephen Hren and Rebekah Hren Publisher Comments You've read the stories and watched the documentaries. So you're convinced — burning fossil fuels leads to global climate change; supplies of fossil fuels are diminishing in quantity and increasing in price. You've fretted and worried, but still go...
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Foxfire 6 (Foxfire)
by Eliot Wigginton Publisher Comments Volume 6 of the "Foxfire series covers shoemaking, 100 toys and games, gourd banjos and song bows, wooden locks, a water-powered sawmill, and other fascinating topics....
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50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth: Completely New and Updated for the 21st Century
by John Javna and Sophie Javna and Jesse Javna Publisher Comments Today's environmental problems may seem too overwhelming for one person to tackle... but you don't have to do it alone. Now you have partners: 50 of them. 50 Simple Things, the revolutionary 1990 bestseller, is back in a completely revised, updated...
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Design for Water: Rainwater Harvesting, Stormwater Catchment, and Alternate Water Reuse
by Heather Kinkade-Levario Publisher Comments In an era of dwindling resources, water is poised to become the new oil. The entire world now faces the reality of a decreasing supply of clean water. To avert a devastating shortage, we must not only look at alternate water sources for existing...
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Ready, Set, Green: Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living from the Experts at TreeHugger.com
by Graham Hill Publisher Comments The time to save the planet is now. Ready? Set? Green Living green means reversing climate change, but it also means protecting your kids and pets, improving your own health, and saving money. And it doesn't necessarily demand a radical overhaul of your...
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Foxfire 3 (Foxfire)
by Eliot Wigginton Publisher Comments Volume 3 of this series covers animal care, banjos and dulcimers, wild plant foods, butter churns, ginseng and more....
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Foxfire #02: Foxfire 2
by Eliot Wigginton Publisher Comments This second Foxfire volume includes topics such as ghost stories, spinning and weaving, wagon making, midwifing, corn shuckin', and more....
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When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance & Planetary Survival
by Matthew Stein Publisher Comments When Technology Fails is the first to offer, under one cover, basic instructions and recommended resources for the wide range of skills and technologies necessary for self-reliant living and achieving mastery of all kinds of emergency conditions.A user...
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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology (P.S.)
by Eric Brende
Publisher Comments What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water, and everything else motorized or "...
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